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Rearview Mirror: 10,000 signatures brought Elvis to the islands in 1961
Every now and then I open up my mailbag and answer reader questions and share their stories. Read more
Every now and then I open up my mailbag and answer reader questions and share their stories. Read more
Servco Pacific is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year, and with $1.8 billion in annual sales, it’s one of Hawaii’s largest private companies. Read more
Many important Hawaii companies are celebrating significant anniversaries this year. Read more
Every now and then I look around Oahu and write about what occupied a particular location at different periods in time. I call it What Was There Before. Read more
The Rev. Paul Sutekichi Osumi wrote a short, inspirational column six days a week in The Honolulu Advertiser from 1957 to 1993 named Today’s Thought. Read more
Gerald Oda, manager of the Honolulu Little League team that won the 12-and-under World Series in August in South Williamsport, Pa., spoke to my Downtown Exchange Club recently. Read more
The ukulele has become popular around the world, but one of the finest ukulele groups I’ve had the pleasure to hear is the Langley Ukulele Ensemble, which has visited the islands each summer for 25 years. Read more
A French reporter contacted me last year. She was looking into whether Aloha Fridays in Hawaii led to Casual Fridays on the mainland and around the world. I had never thought about it, and I decided to look into it further. Read more
I heard from Ken Takeya, who told me he went to Honolulu Christian College when it was at Makiki Christian Church in 1965. Read more
Every now and then I like to put together a collection of short pieces about various topics. Sometimes they’re “leftovahs” from past articles. Read more
When I was going to the University of Hawaii in the early 1970s, what today is called the lower campus was called the quarry. Read more
My list of significant Oahu sites and what was there before continues to grow. Today I look at some of those places that at one time were bowling alleys. Read more
He masqueraded as a maharaja in San Francisco. He claimed to be a descendent of King Kamehameha I’s brother, Kaleimamahu. Read more
My March article on Pat’s at Punaluu has spawned a few spinoffs. One was last week, about David of Punaluu, who lived a traditional Hawaiian life from the 1930s to the 1960s on a 3-acre site there. Read more
In researching Pat’s at Punaluu last month, I came across a reference to a David of Punaluu, sometimes referred to as the Prince of Punaluu. Read more
I wrote about “Hawaii Five-O” on March 15 and heard from one of the show’s writers. Jerome Coopersmith is 93 and is one of the survivors of the original “Five-O” team. He told me several of his favorite stories. Read more
Last month I wrote about Hawaii companies that will pass important milestones in 2019. Here are a few more and their interesting stories. Read more
In January I began a series of articles I call “What Was There Before” — significant Oahu locations and what was on those sites in the past. Read more
Several of my recent columns piqued the interest of Rearview Mirror readers. Here are some of their comments and recollections. Read more
Paul Masuoka, who owned Masu’s Massive Plate Lunch in Liliha, wrote to tell me how he got his start: He worked at Pat’s at Punaluu in the 1960s. Read more
Sometimes one topic I am researching sends me off on a tangent. That happened recently when I was researching Pat’s at Punaluu. Read more